President Obama announced today that funding for the military will be cut back, but at the same time the US has sent thousands of US troops to Israel. The two countries are doing a joint exercise called "Austere Challenge 12." The exercise is meant to develop defense systems and collaboration between American and Israeli forces. US officials have denied this is in retaliation to Iran's war games and allege this was planned way in advance. Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council, gives us his take on this US troop deployment.

Secret files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities by Israel. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. Alison Weir of the Council for National Interest in the U.S. - a pressure group on Middle East policy - believes Israeli influence is corrupting the American media, which no longer represents the views of the country's people...

http://www.euronews.com/ For months Israel has been publicly preparing for possible action against Iran but is frustrated that it does not have Washington's support for a military strike against Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this month warned that Iran by next year would have 90 percent of the material needed for a bomb.
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Earlier this month in Bulgaria, Netanyahu said: "The world tells Israel: 'Wait, there's still time.' And I say: 'Wait for what? Wait until when?' Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel."
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Israel-US relations haven't been this stretched in decades. Busy campaigning for re-election,...

Israel seems keen on going to war with Iran over its controversial nuclear program. However Tel Aviv's top ally, the US is pushing for patience instead. Could it be election season cautiousness from Washington or have relations soured with Israel?
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Abby Martin Highlights Jeff Halper as today's hero for standing up Palestinians against home demolitions by Israeli settlers, and calls our Israeli lobbyist Patrick Clawson for war mongering against Iran

http://usawatchdog.com/controversy-over-irans-nuclear-program-is-a-hoax-paul-craig-roberts/ - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, says, "The Israel/Iran conflict is not about nukes, but water!" Dr. Roberts says, "Israel wants to get rid of Iran as supplier to Hezbollah . . . . So they can overrun Southern Lebanon," because that's where the water is. So, could Israel attack Iran before the November Presidential Election? Dr. Roberts says, "If the election is very close, Netanyahu is likely to take the gamble." Roberts thinks the President would be forced to support Israel militarily so as to not lose the Jewish vote in places like Florida. Dr. Roberts says, "The majority of Israelis do not want...

Last Friday, during question time at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon on "How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout," the director of research at the pro-Israel think tank hinted that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get the United States to go to war against the Islamic Republic.
"I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough," said Patrick Clawson, who also heads the Washington Institute's Iran Security Initiative, in response to a question about what would happen if negotiations with Tehran fail. "And it's very hard for me to see how the United States ... uh ... President can get us to war with Iran."
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If Israel strikes Iran on its own accord it would involuntarily drag the US into a new war in the Middle East - one that America is very reluctant to fight, Yiftah Shapir, the head of the Middle East Military Balance Project, shared with RT.